Hanging tent.



C. B. AVERY &1\/1. C. @L L. A. ALVESON.

HANGING TENT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN24, 1913.

Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

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G. B. AVERY & M. G. & L. A. ALVBSON. HANGING TENT. APPLICATION FILEDIAN. 24, 19l34 1,081,481 Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

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WTTED STATES PATENT TTTQE.

CASSIUS B, AVERY, MAGNUS C. ALVESON, ANI) LOE/IAN A. ALVESON, OFDULUT-I,

llrIll\T.NESOI'Av HANGING TENT'.

Application filed January 24, 1913.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dece 16,193. Serial No. 744,048.

dents of Duluth, county of St. Louis, State of Minnesota, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Hanging Tents, of which thefollowing` is a full and clear specilication, reference being had to theaccom- FlO panying drawings, in which- Figures l, 2 and 3 afeperspective views, reduced. showing three different ways of suspendingthe tent; Fig. il an end elevation of the tent erected, part of thestructure being broken away for purposes of better illustration; F ig. 5a plan view of the floor frame, one end of the frame being shown inhorizontal section; Fig. 6 a side elevation of one end of the tenterected; Figs. 7, S, 9 and l0 detail views of parts which arehereinafter described.

The object of this invention is to provide a tent which shall be capableof being suspended from an overhead support and which also shall beinexpensive in construction,

light in weight and be capable of being collapsed or folded into acompact area, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, a designates a pair of parallel rods or bars formingthe side bars of the floor frame, these bars being connected together attheir ends by end bars Z), thus forming a ioor frame which issubstantially rectangular. The side bars are divided midway their endsand the two sections are hinged together by a pintle c which is arrangedon the under side of the bar and is desir-ably mounted in metal ears (Zformed integral with fer-rules c affixed over the adjacent ends of thesections and arrano'ed to abut each other in the manner of a rule joint.The end bars .7) are extensible for the purpose of adjusting thedistance between the side bars, a screw f being provided for thispurpose, one end of the screw working into an axial recess g in one endof the bar and the other end having an angular head which lits into anangular recess in the side bar. Upon rotating the bar Z), the

59 screw will be held stationary and the side bars will be either pushedapart or allowed to come closer together according to which way the baris turned. rIhe end opposite the screw is provided with a cylindricalpin 552' which extends transversely through the Z, these ferrulesaifording bearings for the angular heads It and the pivots t'.

Connecting the side bars is a canvas floor m, the side edges of thiscanvas sheet being looped over the side bars and detachably connectedthereto by a sewed hem or snap buttons n or other fasteners. By means ofthe stretching bars b it will be seen that the proper tension may begiven to this canvas floor. Each side bar is provided at each of itsends with an oblique transverse hole o for the reception of one of thesuspending ropes. rThere is a rope y) at each corner of the frame. T hetwo ropes at each end of the tent are made integral and are crossed attheir upper ends to forni an eye f/ for the passage of a suspendingrope 1. The lower ends of the ropes j) are provided with knots s toprevent them being drawn up through holes 0. rThe ropes y; at each endof the tent converge upwardly. The suspending rope 1 passes through theeyes q of the corner ropes and forms in effect the ridge pole of thetent, the corner ropes being held to their proper places on thesuspending rope by means of suitable stops on the suspending rope, thesestops being desirably formeel by simply lnotting the suspending rope att. The walls of the tent consist of a suitable piece of canvas draped orhung over the ridge rope, the lower edges of the canvas hanging downbelow the side bars and end bars. The end walls of the tent are formedby folding extensions of the back wall across the ends of the tent andconnecting the front edges thereof detachably to the side edges of thefront wall by a suitable series of detachable fasteners u whereby accessis readily had to the interior of the tent through the front side wall0.

It will be observed that the ridge member r, which in the presentinstance is a rope, extends through holes in the end walls of the tent.It will be observed also that the front wall 0 may be thrown haelt overthe ridge of the tent or can be partly raised, as shown in dotted linesin Fig. it, and propped lll@ . spreader bar o as shown in Fig. 8.

up in that position by a pair of sticks, in which position this frontwall will serve as a sun shade in the day time. lt will be observed thatwhen the canvas is thus draped over the ropes its two side-walls willincline downwardly from the ridge i'ope while the end walls will bevertical. Preferably the end-walls are allowed to hang down inside ofthe floor-stretching-bars b. The tent may be suspended by means of therope r to adjacent trees as shown in Fig. 1, or by means of a pair ofprops and suitable ground stakes as shown in Fig. 2 or from a singleoverhead support by the use of a t is obvious from the abovedescription, that the tent can be collapsed and folded in a compact formto facilitate its transportation from one place to another, in fact,when folded it can be easily carried by one person. To collapse and foldthe device, the extensible end bars b are shortened by rotating thembackward upon their screws, until the canvas floor m is slack enough toallow the withdrawal of the ends of said end bars from their bearings inthe side bars. When this is done, the side bars are folded together.with the canvas floor and the canopy or cover, and then rolled into acompact package, including the separate end bars. The package thusformed will be only as long as one-half the length of the floor frame,and the parts having collapsed in close relation, the package will bereduced to a small diameter.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Lettei's Patent, isF

A hanging tent, comprising la floor-frame embodying side-bars,adjustable end-bars, and a flexible floor, a tent cover for said frame,and means for suspending said frame above the ground, said suspendingmeans consist-ing of a ridge-rope and suspensionropes supported by saidridge-rope and hav-- ing their free ends secured to said side-barsinside of said end-bars, whereby said endb'ars can be adjusted outsideof said tentcover.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix our signatures in the presence oftwo witnesses this 20th day of January, 1913. CASSIUS B. AVERY. MAGNUSC. ALVESON. LOMAN A. ALVESON. lWitnesses ERNEST W. BOERNER,

HARRY W. LANNERS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patente,

Washington, D. G.

